gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) (06/08/91)
I have noticed the odd startup behavior with just a single Applecolor monitor and applecolor card. It looks like the system software initializes the video board twice during startup. This happened to me a few months in system 6.07, but after I reinstalled the system software, the problem went away. I was very concerned that this double-screen blanking would stress my monitor or video card since the nearby radio makes big noise every time it is initialized. Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL --
mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) (06/10/91)
Greetings, I've found the source of my odd startup behavior (where the display cards would initialize, the happy mac would come up, and then it would start over -- once). It seems that partitions mount in alphabetical order. My startup partition is the second in alphabetical order, and the one before it is apparently marked "bootable" somehow (probably because it had a system on it for awhile while I was in transition from 6.0.5 to 7). Therefore, the Mac tries booting off that partition, finds no system, marks the partition temporarily "unbootable", and starts over. I solved the problem by renaming by boot partition with a space in front of it. Now I get one start. Very nice. I did have to redo my aliases, though. Oh, well, I only had about 10. Apparently, it's also possible to permanently mark the partition unbootable, but since I may install a system there again sometime, I figured it'd be easier to just rename it. Thanks for all the suggestions, --Mike